from Zero Hedge
While Illinois’ economy is bigger than Saudi Arabia’s, as we detailed previously, it is California that reigns supreme among America’s states (until the next tech crash). In fact, as Bloomberg reports, according to state data released this week, California has overtaken France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, fueled by strong growth and the U.S. dollar’s gains against foreign currencies.
In order to help put America’s GDP of $18 trillion in 2015 into perspective, the following chart compares the GDP of US states to other country’s entire national GDP…